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Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file,

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Date: 2006-03-09T15:41:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:31:47PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The only copyright holder should be PostgreSQL Global
>> Development Group.

> Err, to do that someone would need to collect copyright assignments (ie
> signed documents) from every single contributer, including people no
> longer associated with the project. That is something you can do if you
> start doing it when the project starts but it way too late for that
> now.

Not for copyrights in the name of people who are still around, which is
99% of the issue.

			regards, tom lane